Specifications
Title | Portrait of Jan Baertsz. |
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Material and technique | Metalpoint, heightened with white (bodycolour and scrathed into the preparation layer), partially reworked with the pen and brown ink, cadre lines with metalpoint, pen and brown ink, brush in bodycolour, on ivory prepared parchment |
Object type |
Drawing
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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Location | This object is in storage |
Dimensions |
Height 83 mm Width 77 mm |
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Artists |
Draughtsman:
Hendrick Goltzius
Previously attributed: Joachim Wtewael |
Accession number | MB 1958/T 4 (PK) |
Credits | Purchased with the support of Rembrandt Association, 1958 |
Department | Drawings & Prints |
Acquisition date | 1958 |
Creation date | in 1580 |
Signature | monogrammed 'HG. [ligature]' (at upper centre, in pen and brown ink) and dated 'Ao 1580' (at lower centre, in metalpoint) |
Watermark | none (parchment) |
Inscriptions | 'In weelden siet toe my[n] kindere[n] bequaeme, En laet in uwe iucht gheen tijt verloere[n]. Maer beiaecht wijl ghij het cont te versaeme. Want goey spijs en dranck mach een oudt mens becoeren' (autograph inscription, in pen and brown ink, around the scene) |
Mark | none |
Provenance | Joan de Vries, his sale, The Hague (Van Wouw), 13 October 1738 sqq., Album 2; Gerard Hoet (1698-1760), his (†) sale, The Hague (Van Thol), 25 August 1760 sqq., Album M, no. 781 (‘t portret van J. Bartsen, en dat van E. Waterlant [inv. no. MB 1958/T5]: Schoonvader, en schoonmoeder, van H. Goltzius. Ten uitterste uitvoerig met de Pen, en een weinig gehoogd op Tablet, door denzelfden [J. Uitewaal]’, fl. 11 to Yver); M.W. van Valkenburg, his sale, Haarlem (Van de Waereld), 17 May 1784 sqq., Album Y, no. 1327; J. van Buren, his sale, The Hague (Scheurleer), 7 November 1808 sqq., Album A; C.P.C. Fabius, Aerdenhout; acquired by the museum, with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, 1958 |
Exhibitions | Rotterdam/Haarlem 1958, no. 58; Prague 1966, no. 28; Amsterdam 1986, no. 339-1; Florence 2000, no. 48; Amsterdam/New York/Toledo 2003, no. 16.1; Paris/Rotterdam 2014, no. 49 |
Internal exhibitions |
Vroege Nederlandse tekeningen - Van Bosch tot Bloemaert (deel 3) (2015) |
External exhibitions |
Bosch to Bloemaert. Early Netherlandish Drawings (2017) Bosch to Bloemaert. Early Netherlandish Drawings from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (2014) |
Research |
Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
Literature | Wurzbach 1906, vol. 1, p. 599; Lindeman 1929, p. 11(J. Wtewael), p. 11, no. 1; Reznicek 1958, pp. 92-96, ill. 6; Reznicek 1961, pp. 57-58, p. 75, no. 260; Strauss 1977, vol. 1, pp. 182-183, no. 2, p. 228; Boon 1978, p. 92, under no. 265; TIB vol. 3 (commentary) (1982), p. 201; Luijten 1993, pp. 228-229, ill. 1; Van Ruyven-Zeman 2002, p. 404, no. 26; Van Thiel-Stroman in Köhler/Biesboer 2006, pp. 235, 237, no. 8; New Hollstein 2007-08, vol. 1, p. lxi, n. 2; Hecht 2008, pp. 144, 221, no. 106 |
Material | |
Object | |
Technique |
Incise
> Scratched
> Decorative techniques
> Ceramic technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
Incise
> Scratched
> Decorative techniques
> Ceramic technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
Highlight
> Painting technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
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Geographical origin | Northern Netherlands > The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |